Garment-attaching means.



A. E. RICHARDSON.

GARMENT ATTACHING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1010.

1 ,022, 1 55. Patented Apr. 2, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMANDA E. RICHARDSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-ATTACHING MEANS.

1'0 all whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMANDA E. RICHARD- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Garment- Attaching Means, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to garment fastening means and comprises an improved form of hook and refers particularly to that type of hook known as detachable.

In the drawings: Figure 1, is a plan of my improved hook, Fig. 2, an edge view of the same, Fig. 3, a plan of an eye which may be used with said hook, Fig. 4 a vertical, sectional view of two portions of a garment with my improved hook and an eye secured to the same respectively for use, Fig. 5, a view of the inner face of the portions of said garment having the hook and eye secured thereto, Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a portion of a garment with an ordinary dress shield secured thereto by my improved hook, and Fig. 7 is a partial sectional detail on an enlarged scale showing the hook attached to the shield and engaging the seam 18 as shown in Fig. 6.

Referring first to Fig. 1, my improved hook is shown therein as comprising a single wire, of suitable size, material and round in cross-section, fashioned to form first substantially the figure eight, or two, adjacent anchoring or retaining loops 1., 2, in substantially the same horizontal plane. The wire is next carried up and over, between the loops 1, 2, and forward therefrom, Fig. 2, to form a substantially straight shank 3 which is depressed somewhat sharply at its end when the Wire is returned and bent somewhat sharply down again over and in the same vertical plane with and close to said shank to form an open cooperating member or garment engaging loop 4. The wire is next carried back the desired distance toward the retaining loops 1, 2, to form a substantially straight bill 5 with a slightly upturned, self-piercing point 6. The portion 3 constituting a substantially straight shank, is bent laterally from the shank and is thence continued into the nearly closed eye 4. The bill 5 lies substantially parallel with and close to the shank 3 for a substantial distance so as to Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 29, 1910.

Patented Apr. 2, 1912.

Serial No. 569,432.

engage the face of the garment adjacent thereto. The shape of the eye t is such that it not only binds more firmly against or engages more intimately the face of the garment, but also prevents longitudinal play of the hook, as will be clearly apparent from an inspection of Fig. 4.

The eye, see Fig. 3, is shown as comprising a single wire of similar material and size, bent to form substantially an open cooperating member or garment engaging loop or U-shaped body 7, provided at each end with a smaller anchoring or retaining loop, one of which, 8, is substantially closed while the opposite one, 9, is left open, the end of the wire therein being sharpened to form a self-piercing point 10, bent slightly outward away from the loop 7.

The hook described is adapted to be detachably secured to a garment by taking it between the fingers, face down, with its point 6 in the direction of pull to be applied to the same when secured to the garment. The point is first inserted into one face of the goods, as cloth, but preferably only part Way through the same, and-is then thrust out again through the same face of the cloth, then turning the hook over and bringing the point thereof upward and pointed in a direction opposite to that in which it was first inserted in the cloth with the two eyes 1, 2, abutting against the face of the cloth at the point where the shank enters the same, in the position shown in Fig. 4t.

\Vhen securing the book as described, the point thereof should be inserted into the cloth at a point distant from the proposed point of engagement of said hook with the eye 7, substantially the length of the shank 3 of the hook, so that when returned to its proper position the loop 4: at the end of the shank will be positioned substantially at the proposed point of engagement thereof with the eye. If the hook is to be used to fasten one portion of a garment over another portion, it will usually be secured to the under face of said overlapping portion, see Fig. 4.

lWIy improved hook is, of course, adapted for use wherever the common hook and eye may be used.

My improved hook, with or without an eye, is particularly adapted for securing dress shields and the like to a garment. In Fig. 6 I have illustrated one mode of such use, viz. without the eye. In this figure the shield 11 is of the usual type and comprises,

Fig. 7 a moisture proof material 12 having at each face thereof a covering 13 of some suitable material. The shield is folded, Fig. 6, along the line 14 thus forming two flaps or wings l5-16, and said shield is usually positioned, for instance, in the arm hole of a garment 17, with the line of the fold 14. directly over the sleeve seam 18 of said garment, one flap 15 lying adjacent the body of the garment and the opposite flap 16 adjacent the sleeve.

I have herein shown the shield provided with four hooks, one near each end of the fold therein and one on each'flap near the bottom edge of the same. The hooks are preferably secured to the inner facing of the shield in the manner already described and without thrusting the points through the moisture proof material of the shield, and perhaps thus ruining the same, see Fig. 7, where a portion of one end of the shield shown in Fig. 6 is shown in detail together with a portion of the garment. The hooks at the line of fold of the shield are practically invisible and are pointed away from the shield and act to retain the shield in its flat or smooth position in the arm hole. The

hooks at the bottom edge of the flaps are preferably pointed downward when secured to the cloth so that the pull upon them will tend to keep the flaps smooth and free from wrinkles so far as possible.

It is, of course, obvious that by Varying the size of the hook it may be adapted to many different uses. For instance, it may, at a moments not-ice, be conveniently used as a skirt supporter. \Vhen it is desired to raise the skirt to protect it from rain or mud, the hook is attached to the skirt at a' suitable point thereon and the point of the hook is then inserted into the skirt farther up near the waist. When no longer needed for that purpose it may readily be detached and removed from the garment.

The fact that the hook and shield may be quickly detached from one garment and attached to another without detaching the hook from the shield is a great convenience for one is enabled to readily transfer a shield from one garment to another.

The hook is particularly adapted for use upon that class of goods known as wash goods, because it may be so readily detached therefrom before said goods are laundried and again attached thereto. When the old fashioned hook is sewed to the goods it must either be removed from the goods before laundrying the same and attached again thereto after said operation, at the expense of considerable inconvenience or, they are likely to be bent out of shape by the wringer and iron during the laundrying. The shank 3 and bill 5 being positioned so near each other and provided with the relatively larger loop 4, after the hook is once attached to the cloth by forcing a portion of the latter into the loop 4 there is but little chance for the hook to become detached.

I have described and illustrated an entirely new type of book; one wherein a selfpiercing hook is adapted to be usedwith convenience and satisfaction either with or without an eye.

Claim.

A garment fastening hook formed of a single piece of wire and consisting of a substantially straight garment penetrating shank bent at one extreme and into a trans versely extending anchoring member, the shank at its opposite end being bent laterally from the shank and continued to form a nearly closed eye substantially remote from said anchoring member and lying in a plane substantially normal to that of said anchoring member, whereby the eye is positioned substantially normal to the garment when the anchoring member is flat thereagainst, the wire being continued from said eye substantially parallel with and close to said shank for a substantial distance so as to en gage the adjacent face of the garment, and terminating between the eye and anchoring member in a point.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in. the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AMANDA E. RICHARDSON.

Witnesses EVERETT S. EMERY, ROBERT H. KAMMLER.

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